Wednesday, Apr 16 2003
• 11 a.m. (ET)

Diane and her guests talk about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening as explored in Dai Sijie’s story. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution, Sijie’s tale follows two city boys exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education, where they meet the daughter of the local tailor and discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation.

Guests

Kate Lehrer
author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."

David Lampton
professor of China studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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